engineer James Perrett
producer The Great Imperial Yoyo
Recorded At Watershed Studio
WELCOME TO CHICKEN ISLAND!

Land of opportunity, dreams and chickens.
Located in the far reaches of the Oestrogen Ocean, this beautiful heap of rock can only be found with the right map ... (sorry, we don't have one anymore, the pilot just ate ours.)
Chicken Island is, of course, completely covered with chickens.
Save for the occasional frog. And their days are filled with strict and rigorous regimes of pecking, clucking and flapping.
Chicken Island is not a quite place.
In fact it's well renowned for its late night beach parties 'neath the palm trees and stars, where the more daring of the species get on down to a bit of lombo dancing, fire eating and even stilt walking.
But those humans, if any, who have managed to witness one of these events, have, mysteriously, never lived to tell the tale.
Shocking.
Except us. We've managed it from the safety of a rusty old boat plane, circling high above Chicken Island and believe us, it's chicken decadence on a grand scale!!!
... uh-oh! What's that, you say? -- Both engines are on fire? ... Assume crash positions??!! ... Pilot's bailing out ????!!!!.........

This albumen belongs to............................
Aged.............

ALL MUSIC AND LYRICS BY THE GREAT IMPERIAL YO YO.
YO YOs STRANDED ON CHICKEN ISLAND ARE:
MAD MIK PUDDING GRIN STANGER - Bass Biff Mandolin Subvocals
PAUL DO-hat LUNG TONGUE NEWMAN - Keys Clarinet Lunarpercs Wails
ANGUS Mc TIBBIEBOBBERDIGE DAY - Drums Drims Drams Gargles Ois
RICH RAT A TAT SOUTH-WESTLAKE - Guitars wok Vocals Squeakophone
RICH SAXAHEADPHONE WALKER - Saxophone Oboe Ohno Oilrig
PAUL PORRIDGETINKTONSPBMCLARKE - Bansheebass Technical Wizardry
RAT'S NAN - Can yo spot her on CHICKEN ISLAND?

RECORDED AT WATERSHED STUDIOS, PORTSMOUTH U.K. SUMMER 1995
ENGINEERED BY THE ONE AND ONLY JAMES PERRETT
MIXED AND PRODUCED BY THE GREAT IMPERIAL YO YO
ARTWORK BY ANGUS. EXTRA COLOR BY PAULA
COPYRIGHT 1995 (CLARKE/DAY/WESTLAKE/NEWMAN/STANGER/WALKER)
All right reserved

BONGHEADS: The label for the herbal connoisseur presented by the psychedelic (?) independent international interplanetary interstellar magazine Crohinga Well. Hundreds of bands bearing a frightening resemblance to The Great Imperial Yo Yo are covered (with a mound of fertilizer) in Crohinga Well, the magazine that reputedly also informs about culture, science, art and dozens of other matters that go bong on the head (they make it all up, you know!).

CALLING ALL CHIKCENS: Before releasing this CD, The Great Imperial Yo Yo recorded two C-90 cassettes: BLINK in 1992 and TOE in 1994. Both these cassette albums are available as an exclusive boxed set including over three hours of chicken weirdness, a twelve-page booklet and, of course, a yo yo. The box was released by Crohinga Well on the Myths Of The Ghandarva label (BS006) as a handmade (by Peruvian virgins?) limited edition of 300. Contact: Crohinga Well, P.O.B. 22, B-1730 Asse, BELGIUM (of all places!).